Steven Fulop

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Steven Fulop (born on February 28, 1977) is the Ward E Councilman in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Fulop is a first generation American who grew up in an immigrant family in Edison, New Jersey. His father owned a delicatessen in Newark NJ, where Steven often worked after school and on week-ends, and his mother, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, worked in an immigration services office helping others gain citizenship.

Fulop graduated from Binghamton University in 1999 and will complete in the summer of 2006 both his Masters in Business Administration at the New York University Stern School of Business and his Masters in Public Administration at Columbia University. While attending Binghamton University, he spent time abroad studying at Oxford University in England.

Upon graduating from college, Fulop joined Goldman Sachs, the investment banking firm, first working in Chicago and later in downtown Manhattan as well as in Jersey City. After working on Wall Street for several years in downtown NY and seeing first hand the effects of 9/11, he decided to give something back to his country by joining the United States Marine Corps as a reservist and puttting his career at Goldman Sachs on hold.

Shortly after completion of Marine Corps boot camp, on January 14, 2003 his Reserve Unit was activated and Fulop was deployed to Iraq, where he served as part of the 6th Engineer Support Battalion for a period of 6 months. He traveled into Baghdad in the early weeks of the war. The battalion focused on engineering, logistics, water purification, and fuel farms. He and his unit were recipients of numerous awards and recognition for service including the Overseas Deployment Ribbon, Meritorious Masts and the Presidential Unit Citation. His unit was part of the support and infrastructure that allowed the swift movement through Iraq. Steven arrived in Kuwait in early February and was one of the first units to arrive in Baghdad. His unit was written about in numerous periodicals during the war which highlighted the company's movements, their contributions, and the ambushes that they encountered. The New Jersey Star Ledger highlighted Steven Fulop on several occasions as a result of his choice to leave the comforts of Wall Street to serve his country. After Iraq Steven returned to Goldman Sachs. One and a half years later, Steven left Goldman Sachs to take an opportunity at another large financial institution.

[edit] City Council Election

In May 2005, Fulop was an upset winner against an incumbant councilman in Jersey City, NJ. When Fulop was sworn into office at 29 years old, he was the youngest member of the city council by more than 17 years and the third youngest in the history of the city. Another signficant difference though between Fulop and every elected offical in Jersey City, (and most in Hudson County) is that he won the election with no establishment support, beating an incumbant with the backing of the powerful Senator Menendez, Mayor Jeramiah Healy of Jersey City, and the Hudson County Democratic Organization. Fulop was outspent by more than 2-1 during the campaign but several tactical innovations helped move the campaign forward despite stiff opposition

[edit] Community Volunteer

Since moving to Hudson County, Steven initially served in two positions within the ocmmunity before his eletcion to the city council: he is past president of the Downtown Coalition of Neighborhood Associations (DCNA) in Jersey City, and also, he is past president of The Historic Paulus Hook Association. In 2006, Steven, who is an avid runner, decided to raise money for the Hudson Country Child Abuse Prevention Center by running in the New York City Marathon. Fulop raies $16,000 running his first marathon in 3:44 with an averge pace of 8:33 per miile

[edit] References

• [Fulop Campaign Web Page].
• [The New York Times - The Young Lion].
• [The Newark Star Ledger - Over There].
• [The Jersey Journal].
• [The Hudson Reporter].